2017-2018 Season

The Concert Orchestra opens its 2017-18 season, with a free concert featuring the following:

• George Frideric Handel: Concerto Grosso, Op. 3, No. 1
• Béla Bartók: Romanian Folk Dances
• Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 101, “The Clock”

Blair Skinner conducts. All Concert Orchestra performances feature small chamber music ensembles. Performances are held in the Bunting-Meyerhoff Interfaith Center and feature free admission. Small chamber ensembles are featured at the beginning of the program.

The Symphony Orchestra opens its 2017-18 season, at the Baltimore War Memorial, with a performance featuring:

• Alan Hovhaness: Prelude and Quadruple Fugue, op.128
• Jean Sibelius: Violin Concerto  featuring BSO Concertmaster Jonathan Carney
• Georges Bizet: Symphony in C

Jed Gaylin conducts. Visit the ticketing page for tickets, directions and additional information. Please note the special location of this concert at the Baltimore War Memorial. There is no pre-concert talk for this concert.

The Concert Orchestra performs a free concert featuring the following:

• Felix Mendelssohn: Sinfonia No. 10
• Ralph Vaughan Williams: Concerto Accademico for Violin and String Orchestra, featuring violinist Samuel Thompson
• Robert Fuchs: Serenade No. 3, Op. 21

Blair Skinner conducts. All Concert Orchestra performances feature small chamber music ensembles. Performances are held in the Bunting-Meyerhoff Interfaith Center and feature free admission. Small chamber ensembles are featured at the beginning of the program.

The Symphony Orchestra performs at the Baltimore War Memorial, in a bi-annual choral collaboration with a performance featuring:

• Johannes Brahms: Tragic Overture & Variations on a Theme by Haydn
• Maurice Duruflé: Requiem featuring vocal soloists Monica Reinagel and Jason Buckwalter, the JHU Choral Society, and the BSA chorus

Jed Gaylin conducts. Visit the ticketing page for tickets, directions and additional information. Please note the special location of this concert at the Baltimore War Memorial. There is no pre-concert talk for this concert.

The Concert Orchestra concludes its 2017-18 season, with a free concert featuring the following:

• Johann Hasse: Overture to Cleofide
• Richard Strauss: Serenade for Winds, Op. 7
• W.A. Mozart: Symphony No. 31, “Paris Symphony”

Blair Skinner conducts. All Concert Orchestra performances feature small chamber music ensembles. Performances are held in the Bunting-Meyerhoff Interfaith Center and feature free admission. Small chamber ensembles are featured at the beginning of the program.

The Symphony Orchestra performs:

• Franz Schubert: Rosamunde Overture
• Bedřich Smetana: Overture and “Dance of the Comedians” from The Bartered Bride featuring Shodekeh, beatboxer/vocal percussionist
• Antonin Dvorak: Symphony No. 7

Jed Gaylin conducts. Concert held at the Bunting-Meyerhoff Interfaith Center with a free pre-concert talk prior to the concert, 7pm, with Max Derrickson, Jed Gaylin, & Shodekeh. Visit the ticketing page for tickets, directions and additional information.

The Symphony Orchestra concludes its season with Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5 and the Hopkins Symphony Concerto Competition winners, Morgan Wu performing Mvt. 1 of the Paganini Violin Concerto and Colin McGregor performing the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto.

Jed Gaylin conducts. Concert held at the Bunting-Meyerhoff Interfaith Center with a free pre-concert talk at 2pm with WBJC’s Jonathan Palevsky. Visit the ticketing page for tickets, directions and additional information.